Debauchery refers to sins involving excessive indulgence of bodily senses. This term is often associated with disorder, misconduct, libertinism, lewdness, depravity, impurity, defilement, lust, fornication, and prostitution. Explore 10 biblical passages and Bible verses on debauchery with Hozana.

10 Biblical Teachings on Debauchery

4 Teachings from the Old Testament

"While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women." (Numbers 25:1)

"Do not invite death by your error of life, or bring on destruction by the works of your hands." (Wisdom 1:12)

"I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery... She defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood." (Jeremiah 3:8–9)

"The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth... Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.’" (Ezekiel 23:1–4)

6 Teachings from the New Testament

"What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly."
(Mark 7:21–22)

"Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh." (Romans 13:13–14)

"I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged." (2 Corinthians 12:21)

"The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft... drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you... that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19–21)

"Among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed... For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." (Ephesians 5:3–5)

"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry." (Colossians 3:5)

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